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Landmark NYT Magazine cover story ennobles resistance in Nabi Saleh
New York Times Magazine Graphic
[/QUOTE]Here is a true landmark, Ehrenreich reporting the rationale for violent resistance:
Then came the heavy wave of suicide bombings, which Bassem termed the big mistake. An overwhelming majority of Israeli casualties during the uprising occurred in about 100 suicide attacks, most against civilians. ... Politically, we went backward, Bassem said. Much of the international good will gained over the previous decade was squandered. Taking up arms wasnt, for Bassem, a moral error so much as a strategic one. He and everyone else I spoke with in the village insisted they had the right to armed resistance; they just dont think it works. Bassem could reel off a list of Nabi Salehs accomplishments. Of some Nabi Saleh, he said, had more advanced degrees than any village he was simply proud. Others one of the first military actions after Oslo, the first woman to participate in a suicide attack involved more complicated emotions.
In 1993, Bassem told me, his cousin Said Tamimi killed a settler near Ramallah. Eight years later, another villager, Ahlam Tamimi escorted a bomber to a Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem. Fifteen people were killed, eight of them minors. Ahlam, who now lives in exile in Jordan, and Said, who is in prison in Israel, remain much-loved in Nabi Saleh. Though everyone I spoke with in the village appeared keenly aware of the corrosive effects of violence This will kill the children, Manal said, to think about hatred and revenge they resented being asked to forswear bloodshed when it was so routinely visited upon them. Said, Manal told me, lost his father, uncle, aunt, sister they were all killed. How can you blame him?/QUOTE]
Landmark 'NYT Magazine' cover story ennobles resistance in Nabi Saleh
Sherri
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New York Times Magazine Graphic
[/QUOTE]Here is a true landmark, Ehrenreich reporting the rationale for violent resistance:
Then came the heavy wave of suicide bombings, which Bassem termed the big mistake. An overwhelming majority of Israeli casualties during the uprising occurred in about 100 suicide attacks, most against civilians. ... Politically, we went backward, Bassem said. Much of the international good will gained over the previous decade was squandered. Taking up arms wasnt, for Bassem, a moral error so much as a strategic one. He and everyone else I spoke with in the village insisted they had the right to armed resistance; they just dont think it works. Bassem could reel off a list of Nabi Salehs accomplishments. Of some Nabi Saleh, he said, had more advanced degrees than any village he was simply proud. Others one of the first military actions after Oslo, the first woman to participate in a suicide attack involved more complicated emotions.
In 1993, Bassem told me, his cousin Said Tamimi killed a settler near Ramallah. Eight years later, another villager, Ahlam Tamimi escorted a bomber to a Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem. Fifteen people were killed, eight of them minors. Ahlam, who now lives in exile in Jordan, and Said, who is in prison in Israel, remain much-loved in Nabi Saleh. Though everyone I spoke with in the village appeared keenly aware of the corrosive effects of violence This will kill the children, Manal said, to think about hatred and revenge they resented being asked to forswear bloodshed when it was so routinely visited upon them. Said, Manal told me, lost his father, uncle, aunt, sister they were all killed. How can you blame him?/QUOTE]
Landmark 'NYT Magazine' cover story ennobles resistance in Nabi Saleh
Sherri